Goodreads asked Chele Pedersen Smith:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Chele Pedersen Smith We can create our own world. It's like taking imaginary friends a step further! In Behind Frenemy Lines, it started as a chapter by chapter surprise for my husband. When I added backstories and began shaping the star players into solid characters, I carved Lee into someone very likable, but not perfect. Yet, I found him to be just right. I fell in love with him, and wanted him to romance me! I wanted my husband to take cues from Lee.
It's also great therapy. If something happens in my life, especially when I was a budding adult right out of High School, new to experiences, it had a way of worming into my writing. I got fired from a fast food restaurant, but it was a misunderstanding. I was helping the elderly customer decide on a combo meal or single item, but the manager thought I was being slow. I cried on my walk home; it hurt my young feelings! Well, it happened to Sherri, my main character in a teen mystery series, and it helped me deal with the unfair situation.
Being a writer means having a special way of seeing incidents around me. I can turn an ordinary errand, such as potted trees being replaced in our Disney hotel rooms, or automated phone calls from our town power company about a 3 a.m. outage to replace transformers, into suspicious events. Read my book to see how they play out.

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